I am quite curious to know who the mother is going to be. I hope it's not some random women who's only on the show for like five mins- like Ted better not say- "And that's when I met her..." the end. I would be so mad! I've invested too much of my time into this show!:p

Actually that would ruin it for me. The show is based on the search for the perfect woman and if Ted meets her it would be like ok, he met her, they got married and what's next? At least this way the show can go on forever.

When I first started watching the show I thought, how long can they pull this off? But the writing is brilliant, every few episodes they hint on who the mother is but never actually show her.

This Halloween, Ted Mosby will finally meet his Slutty Pumpkin on How I Met Your Mother.

Ted and Naomi — I guess we can’t call her the Slutty Pumpkin anymore — will revisit the rooftop Halloween party where they first met in the Oct. 31 installment (CBS, 8/7c). Ted even puts on his old hanging chad costume for the special occasion before introducing her to Barney and Robin, who are wearing some interesting Halloween get-ups of their own. But the episode’s called “Perfect on Paper,” so we’re betting Naomi isn’t the future Mrs. Ted Mosby.

EP Carter Bays teases that “there may be more [faces from the past] down the road.”

It's former Dawson’s Creeker Katie Holmes -

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With the death of Marshall's father last spring and Robin's recent emotional roller coaster, CBS' How I Met Your Mother has been playing out like a daytime soap, and executive producer Carter Bays says there's more drama ahead next year. "We always try to do that delicate dance between lighthearted comedy and real issues," Carter says. Among the upcoming developments:

• We'll again flash forward to the mysterious wedding and the long-awaited revelation of the bride's identity. "In May, we will follow Ted to the bride's dressing room and meet her," promises Carter. "Some monumental things are ahead that will change Ted's life irrevocably and make it a different show going forward. We're going to get into why he's still single. He's going to start realizing some things and exploring some new territory."